Drought in Mexico and the United States of America: Essential Differences in Vulnerability and Approaches in Addressing the Phenomenon

Article Sidebar

PDF (Español (España))
Published: Aug 23, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17428/rfn.v26i3e.1685

Main Article Content

David Ortega-Gaucin
Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua

Abstract

La sequía es un fenómeno climático recurrente que se caracteriza por una reducción en la precipitación pluvial con respecto a la considerada como normal para una zona determinada; no presenta epicentro ni trayectorias definidas y tiende a extenderse de manera irregular a través del tiempo y del espacio, provocando que el agua disponible sea insuficiente para satisfacer las distintas necesidades humanas y de los ecosistemas.

Article Details

How to Cite
Ortega-Gaucin, D. (2017). Drought in Mexico and the United States of America: Essential Differences in Vulnerability and Approaches in Addressing the Phenomenon. Frontera Norte, 26(3e), 141–148. https://doi.org/10.17428/rfn.v26i3e.1685
Issue
Vol. 26 No. 3e (2014): 3e (2014)
Section
Critical Notes

Authors publishing work in this journal agree to the following conditions:

  1. Authors retain copyright and assign first publication rights to the journal Frontera Norte (RFN), with the texts registered under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows third parties to use published material provided they give credit to the authors and acknowledge this journal as the first publisher.

  2. They authorize the reproduction, publication, translation, communication, and transmission of their paper and all accompanying material, publicly and in any form and by any means; its public distribution in as many copies as required; and public communication thereof in any form, including making it available to the public through electronic means or any other technology, and solely for dissemination and scientific, cultural, and non-commercial purposes.

  3. Authors may enter into further independent contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the paper published in this journal (for instance, to include it in an institutional repository or personal webpage, or publish it in a book), provided it is not for commercial purposes and they clearly state that the work was first published in Frontera Norte (RFN) [and add the corresponding bibliographical record: Author/s (Year). Title of paper. Frontera Norte, volume (number), pp. doi: xxxx].

To that end, authors must submit the form assigning ownership of first publication rights, duly completed and signed. This document is to be uploaded in PDF format as a complementary file on the OJS platform.

Licencia de Creative Commons

This work is released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)..

References

FENG, Schuaizhang; Alan B. KRUEGER y Michael OPPENHEIMER, 2010, “Linkages among Climate Change, Crop Yields and Mexico-US Cross-border Migration”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Boston, Stanford University’s highWire Press, vol. 107, núm. 32, pp. 14257-14262.

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) [documento electrónico], 2013, “Summary for Policymakers”, en T. F. STOKER et al., editores, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Introgovermental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge, Reino Unido/Nueva York, Cambridge University Press, en <http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf>, consultado en febrero de 2013.

KNUTSON, Cody; Mike HAYES y Tom PHILLIPS [documento electrónico], 1998, “How to Reduce Drought Risk”, Nebraska, National Drought Mitigation Center, en <http://drought.unl.edu/portals/0/docs/risk.pdf>, consultado el 15 de febrero de 2013.

NATIONAL DROUGHT MITIGATION CENTER (NDMC) [página electrónica], 2013, “U.S. Drought Policy”, Nebraska, National Drought Mitigation Center, en <http://drought.unl.edu/Planning/USPolicy.aspx>, consultado el 18 de febrero de 2013.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) [boletín electrónico], 2013, “U.S. Drought 2012: Farm and Food Impacts”, Washington, D.C., USDA, Economic Research Service, en <http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/inthe- news/us-drought-2012-farm-and-food-impacts.aspx#.UzyiWa15MZU>, consultado el 20 de febrero de 2013.

VÁSQUEZ-LEÓN, Marcela; Colin T. WEST y Timothy J. FINAN, 2003, “A Comparative Assessment of Climate Vulnerability: Agriculture and Ranching on Both Sides of the US-Mexico Border”, Estados Unidos, Elsevier, Global Environmental Change, vol. 13, núm. 3, pp. 159-173.

VELASCO, Israel; Leonel OCHOA y Carlos GUTIÉRREZ, 2005, “Sequía, un problema de perspectiva y gestión”, Región y Sociedad, Hermosillo, El Colegio de Sonora, vol. 17, núm. 34, pp. 35-71.

ZHANG, Qingfeng et al., 2012, Drying Up: What to Do About Droughts in the People’s Republic of China, República Popular de China, Asian Development Bank.